For each tool you find include a sample and a 500 word summary (that includes age appropriateness, how to use in the classroom, safety, and your opinion about the tool)
Review and Evaluate 10 Web 2.0 Tools that have not been used in class
Team Leader: Heather,Christina,Brittany StoryBird
I absolutely loved this web 2.0 tool. I thought it was so inspirational and creative I think this is a wonderful way to encourage students to read and write. Storybird is a web 2.0 tool that allows people to create, discover learn, and connect. People can create their own stories and their own books and also print them out or share them via inter-web. Storybird is also a creative way to teach students virtual literacy skills by letting the students view art work and illustrations of others and interpret their own story from the illustrations and literally become their own authors! Educators recommend this web 2.0 tool to develop art- inspired writing, creative learning, and social reinforcement. Educators can also give private descriptive feedback to help guide the inspiring authors and artists.This is a great creative writing tool and helps encourage literacy exploration. Storybird is free and safe.
Heather Church
ZooBurst
Zooburst is a digital storytelling resource that allows students to create their own 3-D pop-up books. Students can arrange their own characters and props and customize their own 3-D setting, with thousands of images available through Zooburst. Students can share their stories through a hyperlink and stories can be embedded into any social media program. Zooburst provides a different way for students to write, share stories as well as developing presentations,writing reports, and expressing their ideas. Zooburst provides teachers with classroom management resources and allows teachers to set up safe spaces for their students to work in. Zooburst has a variety of book building features such as audio and speech and downloadable book and an unlimited Library. zooburst is best suited for students in grades k-5. I think zooburst is a really neat tool. I believe students would really enjoy building their own 3-D digital pop-up books, I think this tool can be used for safe interactive learning in the classroom
Heather Church
Kerpoof
Kerpoof is an educational web 2.0 tool that was designed by Disney. Kerpoof allows students to do a variety of activities best suited for k-6 classrooms. Kerpoof allows students to write stories, make videos, flash cards, make drawings and the class has the option of voting and collaborating with other students art work as well as sharing their own work. Kerpoof has great resources for teachers to use in their classrooms such as lesson plans, classroom ideas, and newsletters and it also has a page that communicates Educational standards that can be met through technology. Kerpook is absolutely free and safe. Filters and moderators restrict what artwork can be published in the public gallery to be viewed by students. Multiple students are easily able to access the tool at the same time which could make a great tool for whole classroom instruction. I thought this was a neat and cute tool and it allows a lot of creativty and diverse ideas as well as an oppertunity for students to share their masterpieces with their whole class.
Heather Church
Studyladder
This tool is great! It covers over ten different subjects with so many different activities to go along with the subjects. There is games, activities, worksheets and so many more things. On Studyladder there are over 7,000 learning modules to go along with the subjects. Studyladder is used for the home and school there are over 250,000 people that are using studyladder now as a tool for teaching and learning. You can join Studyladder if you are a student, teacher, parent, homeschooler, tutor, school administrator, trainee teacher and parent association. It is easy to join and it's FREE! I joined as a trainee teacher and it has a teacher survival, themed project sheets and you can add classes. It is user friendly and fun to use.
-Brittany Coffey
Schoology
this is a great web tool! There are so many things that it offers for you to use for whatever reason. Some of the things that you are able to do is personalized your homepage that best suites you, chose the tools that would best help you learn, create different badges, create a calendar for what you need to have done for the week or month, create assignments or events for your students, create quizzes and test, online grade-book and attendance, have customize grading system, standards and outcome alignments, track student usage and course analysis, messaging, announcements and group workspace. This tool has so much to offer a new teacher and a teacher that has taught for a long time.
-Brittany Coffey
Timetoast
This tool is a great tool to show a timeline to children. This is a great visual for children. I would use this tool for history or have the children create one for their life. It would show the time that something important happened to them. They can also show when they want things to happen or when they know that things will happen, like when they will graduate high school. This web tool can help children with so many different things in their life and show us a teachers that they can use a timeline. There are ten different categories that are already created on the website that you can look at for an example of what it should be.
-Brittany Coffey
Popplet
I love popplet! I am a person that really likes and needs the visuals for learning. This tool can be used not only for school but also for a business meeting to show a great bubble chart. Popplet is also available as an app on the ipad or a mobile device so it can be taken anywhere. On popplet there are three different opitions you can create five for free, have unlimited for $3 a month or $30 a year. I feel that popplet is very user friendly because it shows you how to create one step by step. I think that this would be good for fifth graders because they are at the age that they are understanding the concept of years. This would also be good for middle school children for history classes. (I think that this could be fun for a mom to track the time that things happened in her life to show her child(ren) when they get older).
-Brittany Coffey
Kidblog
Kidblog is designed for kindergarten through twelve grade teachers who want to provide each student with an individual blog. Students can publish post and participate in academic discussions within a secure classroom. The teacher is maintains complete control over students blogs and accounts. Your children can write anywhere from the computer lab, at home, and on their ipads or mobile devices. Kidblog gives your student's writing a meaningful purpose and an authentic audience. Kigblog makes it easy to publish rich multimedia content. Kidblog is similar system to Wordpress, only it is free. This web tool has a mission to empower teachers to embrace the benefits of the coming digital revolution in education. I think that Kidblog is also very similar to Facebook, only more appropriate for younger children. It is beneficiary by keeping up with what goes on in the classroom and helps everyone be on task. With Kidblog they would have the ability to look up assignments and ask each other questions about what needs to be done. Very helpful for when they are doing homework and get confused or need help. The teacher can receive notifications when someone post something so that they can help their students, they can also keep up with the children's appropriateness. I think that children would enjoy this tool and that it would improve social involvement in the classroom.
-Christina Hardy
Storyjumper
Storyjumper is a web tool that allows children to build their own books. When they are done, you can order your own professionally published hardback book. This tool is a great way to teach students creative writing, and helps coach them into learning the primary components of a story and what they require. This web tool is free to use and can be adjusted and managed by the teacher. The students will be free to create their own personal stories about whatever they choose. They can then, edit their book with illustrations that they want to use. They have all control over how their characters look and even how their font looks. With each page, they write, design, and practically publish their own book. Storyjumper is appropriate for children 13 and over, even so, there should be supervision in the book writing process to ensure that the children are writing appropriately. I think Storyjumper is very usefull in helping children with their writing, reading, and creative skills. This web tool increases their imagination and also encourages them by proving to themselves that they can accomplish a great skill in knowing the steps to publishing their own children's books.
-Christina Hardy
Class Dojo
Class Dojo is a classroom tool that helps teacher improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teacher can share with parents and administrators. Dojo works by improving behavior in class with just one click from your smart phone, laptop or tablet. It is very fascinating and engages the children quickly. Dojo provides a very simple way to get hassle-free data and reports. This web tool benefits the teachers, students, and the parents. It helps the teachers by greatly reducing the students' behavior so that the teacher can focus more on the lesson and spend less time controlling the class. Students receive positive reinforcement from Dojo and it helps them develop a sense of purpose in the classroom, enhancing intrinsic motivation overtime. Class Dojo helps parents by giving them the opportunity to be involved in their childs' development, teachers can provide them real-time data from the classroom to help them manage their childs behavior. I think Dojo would be a unique tool to use in the classroom because it helps you manage your class. You can also customize it the way you want it to appear and add things that would help influence good behavior in the classroom.
-Christina Hardy
Review and Evaluate 10 Web 2.0 Tools that have not been used in class
Team Leader: Heather,Christina,Brittany
StoryBird
I absolutely loved this web 2.0 tool. I thought it was so inspirational and creative I think this is a wonderful way to encourage students to read and write. Storybird is a web 2.0 tool that allows people to create, discover learn, and connect. People can create their own stories and their own books and also print them out or share them via inter-web. Storybird is also a creative way to teach students virtual literacy skills by letting the students view art work and illustrations of others and interpret their own story from the illustrations and literally become their own authors! Educators recommend this web 2.0 tool to develop art- inspired writing, creative learning, and social reinforcement. Educators can also give private descriptive feedback to help guide the inspiring authors and artists.This is a great creative writing tool and helps encourage literacy exploration. Storybird is free and safe.
Heather Church
ZooBurst
Zooburst is a digital storytelling resource that allows students to create their own 3-D pop-up books. Students can arrange their own characters and props and customize their own 3-D setting, with thousands of images available through Zooburst. Students can share their stories through a hyperlink and stories can be embedded into any social media program. Zooburst provides a different way for students to write, share stories as well as developing presentations,writing reports, and expressing their ideas. Zooburst provides teachers with classroom management resources and allows teachers to set up safe spaces for their students to work in. Zooburst has a variety of book building features such as audio and speech and downloadable book and an unlimited Library. zooburst is best suited for students in grades k-5. I think zooburst is a really neat tool. I believe students would really enjoy building their own 3-D digital pop-up books, I think this tool can be used for safe interactive learning in the classroom
Heather Church
Kerpoof
Kerpoof is an educational web 2.0 tool that was designed by Disney. Kerpoof allows students to do a variety of activities best suited for k-6 classrooms. Kerpoof allows students to write stories, make videos, flash cards, make drawings and the class has the option of voting and collaborating with other students art work as well as sharing their own work. Kerpoof has great resources for teachers to use in their classrooms such as lesson plans, classroom ideas, and newsletters and it also has a page that communicates Educational standards that can be met through technology. Kerpook is absolutely free and safe. Filters and moderators restrict what artwork can be published in the public gallery to be viewed by students. Multiple students are easily able to access the tool at the same time which could make a great tool for whole classroom instruction. I thought this was a neat and cute tool and it allows a lot of creativty and diverse ideas as well as an oppertunity for students to share their masterpieces with their whole class.
Heather Church
Studyladder
This tool is great! It covers over ten different subjects with so many different activities to go along with the subjects. There is games, activities, worksheets and so many more things. On Studyladder there are over 7,000 learning modules to go along with the subjects. Studyladder is used for the home and school there are over 250,000 people that are using studyladder now as a tool for teaching and learning. You can join Studyladder if you are a student, teacher, parent, homeschooler, tutor, school administrator, trainee teacher and parent association. It is easy to join and it's FREE! I joined as a trainee teacher and it has a teacher survival, themed project sheets and you can add classes. It is user friendly and fun to use.
-Brittany Coffey
Schoology
this is a great web tool! There are so many things that it offers for you to use for whatever reason. Some of the things that you are able to do is personalized your homepage that best suites you, chose the tools that would best help you learn, create different badges, create a calendar for what you need to have done for the week or month, create assignments or events for your students, create quizzes and test, online grade-book and attendance, have customize grading system, standards and outcome alignments, track student usage and course analysis, messaging, announcements and group workspace. This tool has so much to offer a new teacher and a teacher that has taught for a long time.
-Brittany Coffey
Timetoast
This tool is a great tool to show a timeline to children. This is a great visual for children. I would use this tool for history or have the children create one for their life. It would show the time that something important happened to them. They can also show when they want things to happen or when they know that things will happen, like when they will graduate high school. This web tool can help children with so many different things in their life and show us a teachers that they can use a timeline. There are ten different categories that are already created on the website that you can look at for an example of what it should be.
-Brittany Coffey
Popplet
I love popplet! I am a person that really likes and needs the visuals for learning. This tool can be used not only for school but also for a business meeting to show a great bubble chart. Popplet is also available as an app on the ipad or a mobile device so it can be taken anywhere. On popplet there are three different opitions you can create five for free, have unlimited for $3 a month or $30 a year. I feel that popplet is very user friendly because it shows you how to create one step by step. I think that this would be good for fifth graders because they are at the age that they are understanding the concept of years. This would also be good for middle school children for history classes. (I think that this could be fun for a mom to track the time that things happened in her life to show her child(ren) when they get older).
-Brittany Coffey
Kidblog
Kidblog is designed for kindergarten through twelve grade teachers who want to provide each student with an individual blog. Students can publish post and participate in academic discussions within a secure classroom. The teacher is maintains complete control over students blogs and accounts. Your children can write anywhere from the computer lab, at home, and on their ipads or mobile devices. Kidblog gives your student's writing a meaningful purpose and an authentic audience. Kigblog makes it easy to publish rich multimedia content. Kidblog is similar system to Wordpress, only it is free. This web tool has a mission to empower teachers to embrace the benefits of the coming digital revolution in education. I think that Kidblog is also very similar to Facebook, only more appropriate for younger children. It is beneficiary by keeping up with what goes on in the classroom and helps everyone be on task. With Kidblog they would have the ability to look up assignments and ask each other questions about what needs to be done. Very helpful for when they are doing homework and get confused or need help. The teacher can receive notifications when someone post something so that they can help their students, they can also keep up with the children's appropriateness. I think that children would enjoy this tool and that it would improve social involvement in the classroom.
-Christina Hardy
Storyjumper
Storyjumper is a web tool that allows children to build their own books. When they are done, you can order your own professionally published hardback book. This tool is a great way to teach students creative writing, and helps coach them into learning the primary components of a story and what they require. This web tool is free to use and can be adjusted and managed by the teacher. The students will be free to create their own personal stories about whatever they choose. They can then, edit their book with illustrations that they want to use. They have all control over how their characters look and even how their font looks. With each page, they write, design, and practically publish their own book. Storyjumper is appropriate for children 13 and over, even so, there should be supervision in the book writing process to ensure that the children are writing appropriately. I think Storyjumper is very usefull in helping children with their writing, reading, and creative skills. This web tool increases their imagination and also encourages them by proving to themselves that they can accomplish a great skill in knowing the steps to publishing their own children's books.
-Christina Hardy
Class Dojo
Class Dojo is a classroom tool that helps teacher improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. It also captures and generates data on behavior that teacher can share with parents and administrators. Dojo works by improving behavior in class with just one click from your smart phone, laptop or tablet. It is very fascinating and engages the children quickly. Dojo provides a very simple way to get hassle-free data and reports. This web tool benefits the teachers, students, and the parents. It helps the teachers by greatly reducing the students' behavior so that the teacher can focus more on the lesson and spend less time controlling the class. Students receive positive reinforcement from Dojo and it helps them develop a sense of purpose in the classroom, enhancing intrinsic motivation overtime. Class Dojo helps parents by giving them the opportunity to be involved in their childs' development, teachers can provide them real-time data from the classroom to help them manage their childs behavior. I think Dojo would be a unique tool to use in the classroom because it helps you manage your class. You can also customize it the way you want it to appear and add things that would help influence good behavior in the classroom.
-Christina Hardy